Benefits of investing with FirstChoice Employer Super

FirstChoice Employer Super provides a super account that helps you reach your retirement goals.

We are committed to providing you with:

• a competitively priced product - that gives you value for money

• flexible insurance options - above and beyond the minimum legal requirements, with generous automatic acceptance limits and competitive premiums

• a diverse investment menu - you can choose from a wide range of investment options.

Benefits of investing in a multi-manager portfolio

Ready-made portfolios

We construct the multi-manager portfolios for investors so they can have access to a range of ready-made portfolios of professionally selected investment managers.

Diversification

As each of the multi-manager portfolios combines a number of professionally selected investment managers in one investment portfolio, they provide you with a convenient way of diversifying across investment managers to manage your investment risk.

Risk level

Medium to High

How your super account works

FirstChoice Employer Super is an accumulation super fund. This means that each member has an account balance with money flowing in and out of the account.

When a contribution is made to your account, the contribution is used to purchase units in your chosen option. For example, if you make a contribution of $100 and the entry unit price for your chosen option is $1.00, then you will receive 100 units.

The value of your units may fluctuate due to the receipt of investment income and/or changes in the value of the underlying assets held in each option. The unit price you receive may also be affected by other factors, such as the payment of tax and other fund costs from the assets of the fund. Other costs that relate specifically to you, such as the payment of insurance premiums or an adviser service fee, may also be deducted from your account via the withdrawal of units. This means that your account balance can fluctuate on a daily basis depending on market movements, the costs of running the fund and any expenses that relate specifically to your account.

How is FirstChoice Employer Super structured?

When your contributions are invested in FirstChoice Employer Super, your money is combined with other investors' money in FirstChoice. Each FirstChoice investment option is a separate option within this superannuation fund. Each option invests in an underlying pool' which is managed according to the investment option's objectives. In most cases, we are the responsible entity for the underlying pools, which are managed by each investment manager through a mandate arrangement or, for FirstRate Saver, deposited with Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

How we invest your money

Investment strategy

The option allocates 60% of investments to growth assets such as shares and property and infrastructure securities to provide potential for capital growth. The shares component is managed by Realindex Investments using a systematic methodology. The property and infrastructure components are managed using market capitalisation indices.

40% of the portfolio is allocated to defensive assets such as fixed interest and cash to provide the portfolio with relatively stable returns. The fixed interest component includes government bonds managed on a traditional index basis and a broadly diversified portfolio of credit securities.

The portfolio aims to hedge currency risk except for the allocation to emerging market shares and part of the allocation to global shares.

Investment allocation

• Australian shares: 22.5%

• Global shares: 13.5%

• Global shares - hedged: 12%

• Emerging markets shares: 2%

• Global property securities: 5%

• Global infrastructure securities: 5%

• Fixed interest: 27%

• Cash (may include bank deposits and/or life company annuities): 13%